SHIP EMISSION INFLUENCE ON CLOUDS: A STUDY USING SATELLITE RETRIEVED CLOUD PROPERTIES

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1 SHIP EMISSION INFLUENCE ON CLOUDS: A STUDY USING SATELLITE RETRIEVED CLOUD PROPERTIES Karsten Peters 1,2, Johannes Quaas 1, Irina Sandu 1, Bjorn Stevens 1, and Hartmut Grassl 1 1 Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, Germany 2 International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, Germany ABSTRACT In this study, we propose a statistical method to evaluate scenes in which ship emission influence on clouds could be observed. This method aims at efficiently separating clean and polluted marine boundary layer (MBL) air masses. A ship emission inventory is used to find regions where significant spatial contrast in shipping emissions is present. The regions selected are located in the southeastern Pacific as well as in the mid- and southeastern Atlantic. We use MBL-wind trajectories from 2002 through 2007 to select scenes which have the potential to offer a clear separation of clean and polluted air masses. The statistical analysis of satellite retrieved cloud- and aerosol properties does not reveal a depictable effect of ship emissions on the either or the other. We propose that this is due to the small statistical sample sizes, uncertainties in the method adopted and the smallness of ship emissions in general. Key words: ship emissions; aerosol indirect effects; satellite measurements. 1. INTRODUCTION Anthropogenic activities come in hand with emissions of aerosols and aerosol precursor gases, making the quantification of their impact on cloud properties, e.g. cloud droplet number concentration [Twomey, 1974, Lohmann and Feichter, 2005], cloud lifetime [Albrecht, 1989, Stevens and Feingold, 2009] or even cloud top height [Koren et al., 2005, Teller and Levin, 2006], a topic of ongoing research. These aerosol effects on cloud microand macrophysical properties are referred to as aerosol indirect effects and are subject to the largest uncertainties of all radiative forcing components of the Earth System when it comes to assessing human induced climate forcing [Forster et al., 2007]. Seagoing ships are the least regulated sources of anthropogenic emissions. Combustion of such fuels produces, aside from gaseous species, large amounts of particulate matter (PM) consisting of elemental (black) and organic carbon, sulfate, ash and particles forming from sulfuric acid [Petzold et al., 2008, and references therein]. Given that conditions for aerosol-cloud-interactions at the top of the marine boundary layer (MBL) are fulfilled, a certain number of emitted particles can serve as cloud condensation nuclei, leading to aerosol indirect effects [Hobbs et al., 2000, Petzold et al., 2005, Dusek et al., 2006, Petzold et al., 2008]. A number of experimental and observational studies have have been performed to identify and quantify the underlying processes and their effect on cloud micro- and macrophysical properties [Frick and Hoppel, 2000, Durkee et al., 2000, Devasthale et al., 2006, Petzold et al., 2008]. Results of the studies using satellite data show that it is feasible to attribute changes in cloud properties to ship emissions [Schreier et al., 2006, 2007, Campmany et al., 2009]. In this study, we propose a new approach towards quantifying the effect of ship emissions on clouds at a larger scale. We aim at sampling clean and polluted maritime regions of identical large scale meteorology. This is especially important because cloud properties and their susceptibility towards changes in anthropogenic aerosol are believed to be regime dependent [Stevens and Feingold, 2009]. We then perform a statistical analysis of satellite retrieved cloud- and aerosol properties with respect to clean and polluted environments. The method and data are described in section 2 and the results in section 3. A discussion of the results and an outlook are given in section METHOD AND DATA We use a combination of datasets to characterise scenes which are suited for the analysis of ship emission influence on clouds in a statistical sense. First, we select regions with large spatial contrasts in shipping emissions from visual analysis of the global shipping emission inventory presented in Endresen et al. [2005] and Endresen et al. [2007]. We select three shipping lanes for our analysis: (1) the shipping lane from the Panama Canal to Australia, (2) the shipping lane from the southern African tip northwestwards and (3) the mid Atlantic part of the shipping lane from Europe to South America (see Fig. 1). Second, we analyse low-level wind trajectories in these

2 Figure 1: Regions selected for the analysis. The black lines indicate the mean low-level wind trajectories from years The trajectories in the left and middle panel (SE Pacific and SE Atlantic) are the same as in Sandu et al. [2010]; the mean trajectory for the right panel (mid Atlantic) was calculated using the same method (see Sec. 2). Figure 2: Number of useful scenes (as defined in Sec. 2) for each of the regions of interest. The number of measurements is given as function intersection angle between shipping lane and the trajectory. The total number of useful scenes is 15408, 427 and 9816 for the regions SE Pacifc, SE Atlantic and mid Atlantic, respectively.

3 regions from to find scenes in which the MBL airmasses cross the respective shipping lane. By this, a separation of clean (upwind) and polluted (downwind) scenes is established. We use wind trajectories calculated with the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model (HYSPLIT) ( as described in Sandu et al. [2010] for the shipping lanes (1) and (2). For the analysis of shipping lane (3), we initialise wind trajectories from nine equally spaced points inside a grid box having upper left and lower right coordinates of (2 S,21 W) and (8 S,15 W), respectively. We calculate the intersection point of each calculated wind trajectory with the respective shipping lane by means of linear algebra. This intersection point and the respective trajectory are classified as useful for further analysis if (1) the height of the trajectory does not exceed 500m above sea level ten hours before and ten hours after the intersection and (2) the intersection angle is 90 ±20. Histograms of the amount of useful scenes as a function of intersection angles are given in Fig. 2. From this preleading analysis, we exclude the region in the southeastern Atlantic from our further analysis, because the amount of useful scenes would not ensure a sound statistical analysis. Third, we analyse aerosol- and cloud properties along the useful trajectories. Because the trajectory model delivers hourly output of trajectory location, we are able to sample for satellite data at every hour of the trajectory. We use trajectory locations ten hours before ( clean area) and after ( polluted area) the intersect with the shipping lane. Satellite data is analysed for every 2 x 2 grid box centerd around a given trajectory point (hourly resolution). We use the publicly available MODIS Level3 collection 5 dataset for both MODIS sensors (aboard NASA s satellites EOS Aqua and EOS Terra) [Platnick et al., 2003, Remer et al., 2005]. The satellite data falling into every selected 2 x 2 box is screened for completeness (no missing values allowed) and presence of ice clouds (no retrieved optical thickness of ice clouds allowed). By this, the amount of data available for analysis is strongly reduced. From the screened data, we take the retrieved liquid cloud fraction (cf), cloud droplet effective radius (r eff ) and cloud optical depth (τ) of liquid water clouds as well as the retrieved aerosol optical depth at 0.55 µm (AOD). We compute the cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC) for liquid clouds from r eff and τ assuming adiabaticity [Quaas et al., 2008, and references therein]. 3. RESULTS The results from the analysis of cloud- and aerosol properties along shipping-lane-intersecting wind trajectories are given in Fig. 3 and Table 1. We apply strict quality constraints to the used satellite data (see Sec. 2). This leads to a significant reduction of scenes available for the statistical analysis compared to the number of useful scenes found from the wind trajectory analyis (Fig. 2 and Tab. 1). Concerning data from MODIS(Terra) (MT), the number of scenes is reduced by Table 1: Number of measurements used for cloud- and aerosol property evaluation. The number of measurements applies to every hourly position in Fig. 3. Aqua Terra Region cloud prop. AOD cloud prop. AOD SE Pacific mid Atlantic roughly 20% and 70% for the regions SE Pacific and mid Atlantic, respectively. The number of scenes available for MODIS(Aqua) (MA) is even less because the instrument just started collecting data in mid 2002 and there is a data gap from January till May The number of scenes available for AOD evaluation is less than for cloud property evaluation because more 2 x 2 grid boxes contain missing values for the AOD- than for the cloud property retrieval. The calculated mean values of cloud- and aerosol properties as a function of time to/from intersect are shown in Fig. 3. Our analysis shows that the retrieved values of cloudand aerosol properties do not agree well between the two MODIS instruments for most parameters. The parameters retrieved from MT measurements are larger than those retrieved by MA except for τ and r eff for the mid Atlantic. The change of the analysed parameters with time from/to intersect (TTI/TFI) is (1) generally found to be very small and (2) also seldomly consistent between the two retrievals. Furthermore, the standard deviations associated with the mean values plotted in Fig. 3 is often larger than the retrieved value itself (not shown). Concerning the results for the SE Pacific region (Figs. 3(a) - 3(e)), the only parameters where our analysis reveals a discernible change with time is the MA-retrieved r eff. Because CDNC is dependent on r eff, this signal is also found there. The results show a decrease of r eff at the time of intersect. r eff increases again sharply with TFI. The same holds for CDNC, just with a different sign, i.e. a sharp in- and subsequent decrease. The MT-retrieved values for r eff also show an increase with TFI. Combined with the retrieved τ, both retrievals lead to a similar slope of decreasing CDNC with TFI. Our analysis for the mid Atlantic region shows (Figs. 3(f) - 3(j)), that the parameter being subject to the most pronounced change with TFI is the AOD retrieved by both instruments. The AOD is found to have a small but distinct maximum 4-5 hours downwind of the intersect. Concerning cloud microphysical properties, the MA-retrieved r eff is found to subject to the largest change with time, just like in the SE Pacific region. Here, r eff is found to have its maximum value at the time of intersect and it then decreases sharply with TFI. As discussed before, this applies to calculated CDNC in an opposite manner. The MT-retrieved r eff does not show this functional behaviour with time. Nevertheless, the MT-retrieved τ and r eff lead to a systematic increase of CDNC with the complete time frame under consideration, i.e. the CDNC is lowest and highest at ten hours before and after the time

4 (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) Figure 3: Satellite data analysis of the two regions of interest (SE Pacific (a) - (e); mid-atlantic (f) - (j)) for : mean cloudand aerosol properties for a 2 x 2 grid box centered around the wind trajectory position from 1-10 hours up- and downwind of the intersection point with the shipping lane. (a,f) liquid cloud fraction (cf), (b,g) aerosol optical depth (AOD), (c,h) cloud optical thickness (τ), (d,i) cloud droplet effective radius (r eff ), (e,j) cloud droplet number concentration (CDNC). Results are show for retrievals from MODIS aboard EOS-Aqua and EOS-Terra. of intersect, respectively. 4. DISCUSSION AND OUTLOOK In this paper, we presented a novel approach to sample satellite retrieved cloud- and aerosol properties to investigate aerosol indirect effects stemming from shipping emissions. Satellite data are analysed along selected lowlevel wind trajectories which intersect shipping routes. These shipping routes are assumed to modify the MBL aerosol in such a way that their effect on cloud microphysics can be detected downwind of the shipping lanes by statistical anlysis. In our application of the wind trajectory analysis (see Sec. 2) we select or exclude maritime regions which are suited or not suited for the statistical analysis of aerosol- and cloud-property change due to shipping emissions. The analysis of the satellite data does not reveal the clear change in cloud- and aerosol properties from clean to polluted marine environments that we anticipated. The MA- and MT-retrieved parameters that we consider show very small changes with respect to time before/from intersect. If a systematic change is present, this change often does not comply with the conceptual picture of the first aerosol indirect effect [Twomey, 1974]. Furthermore, the computed mean values of cloud- and aerosol properties are not consistent between the MT- and MA-retrievals. These rather unsatisfying results can be due to several reasons. The most probable one is the (so far) small amount of satellite data available for the analysis. The histograms of the sampled parameters show a large spread about the mean value, which results in standard deviations on the order of the measured value itself (not shown here). Furthermore, the used MODIS satellite data is of rather coarse spatial (1 x 1, averaged to 2 x 2 ) resolution. Because shipping emissions are features happening at significantly smaller scales, the use of finer resolution products might very well give clearer results. A positive side effect of this would be that the sample size would be significantly increased, thus reducing uncertainty in the statistical analysis. Until now, we only consider one large scale meteorological variable: MBL wind direction. We do not systematically sample for wind speed nor do we sample for other large scale parameters like lower tropospheric stability. Situations with large wind speeds lead to enhanced emission of sea-salt from the sea surface, most probably burying a potential signal from ship emission influence on clouds. Sampling for lower tropospheric stability would enable us to separate between environments prone to the formation of large scale boundary layer liquid water clouds [Wood and Bretherton, 2006], which are known to be susceptible to shipping emissions [e.g. Hobbs et al., 2000]. One other reason for the results we obtained could be the choice of regions and the smallness of shipping emissions in general. Concerning the choice of regions, the shipping lane from Panama to Australia is probably one of the few shipping corridors where the environment can really be considered as pristine marine. Nevertheless, the emissions might be too small to give a statistically

5 discernible effect on cloud properties in the long-term mean. The shipping emissions in the mid Atlantic region are significantly higher but aerosol advection from Africa cannot be excluded. Additionally, we have no knowledge about whether or not a ship is passing the shipping lane at a calculated intersection time because we only use an annual mean emission distribution. Nevertheless, the choice of a different region, e.g. the shipping corridor between Sri Lanka and Sumatra, where it has proven feasible to statistically derive changes in atmospheric chemistry from satellite data [Marbach et al., 2009], may very well increase the chance of finding a systematic signal in cloud- and aerosol properties. To further continue with this work, we will consider doing several things. We plan to revise the applied method to enhance the sample size. Additionally, the sampling for other large scale meteorological variables than just MBL wind direction is most likely to enable sampling of scenes where the susceptibility of cloud microphysical properties to shipping emissions is increased. Furthermore, more areas and additional satellite data will be used for the analysis. In the long run, we plan to investigate similar approaches with results from a free-run global climate model (GCM) with an interactive aerosol scheme. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This work is funded by the European Commission under the EU Seventh Research Framework Programme (grant agreement No , MACC). We thank NASA for providing free access to the MODIS data. We thank NOAA for enabling the use of the HYSPLIT model. REFERENCES B. A. Albrecht. Aerosols, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness. Science, 245: , E. Campmany, R. Grainger, S. Dean, and A. Sayer. Automatic detection of ship tracks in ATSR-2 satellite imagery. Atmos. Chem. Phys, 9: , A. Devasthale, O. 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